Paleontology Lab
Across
- 3. plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary
- 7. Change a change in the world's climate
- 8. the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains
- 11. a type of body fossil that forms when crystals fill a mold
- 14. An enormous crocodile ancestor with blade-like teeth walked on two legs
- 15. plants having seeds in a closed ovary
- 19. the northernmost dinosaur known to have ever lived
- 21. from 230 to 63 million years ago
- 22. any placental mammal of the order Primates
- 24. realated to the famous t-rex; had a meat-free diet
Down
- 1. a genus of squid relatives that lived during the Jurassic period
- 2. lacking a backbone or spinal colum
- 4. a type of fossil that provides evidence of the activities of ancient organisms
- 5. Most famous carnivore of all time; from Jurassic period
- 6. flightless bird with a head the size of a horse's wandering about in the winter twilight of the high Artic
- 9. the largest, longest, and heaviest snake ever discovered
- 10. A fierce marine lizard that patrolled the sea more than 65 million years ago
- 12. lived in temperate forests in what is now the south of South America during the Upper Cretaceous period
- 13. The most ferocious-looking teeth ever seen on a mammal
- 16. the process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice
- 17. a new species of hadrosaur from utah
- 18. vertebrate having an amnion surrounding the embryo
- 20. The big dino lived in the late-Cretaceous North Africa
- 23. a new species of pterosaur from China